The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 87 the left the English taste in an uncommonly straight-forward example. Nothing has here been borrowed ofthe French but its lightness and finish. The geometricaltracery is not put out of countenance by the very dis-creet introduction of rococo foliage scrolls at the feetand supporting the raised parts of the slight rail. Onefeels how much more comfortable an object it is than 170 TH
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 87 the left the English taste in an uncommonly straight-forward example. Nothing has here been borrowed ofthe French but its lightness and finish. The geometricaltracery is not put out of countenance by the very dis-creet introduction of rococo foliage scrolls at the feetand supporting the raised parts of the slight rail. Onefeels how much more comfortable an object it is than 170 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER. Plate Xll its neighbor, which, though really as soundly built, hasan air of being in full dress, and not to be familiarlytreated. The supper Canterbury and stand by Sheraton THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 171 are likewise simple and of a sturdy elegance. It is insuch pieces as these that we have the best work by thebest workmen. A father and son, under the firm titleof Win. Loyd & Son, Boston, Mass., made a lot of workof this kind before the revolution, and many pieces ofthis work found their way into Philadelphia and thesouth as far as Georgia; and was quite common in the
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